From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 29 02:58:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA26105 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 02:58:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA26099 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 02:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA01221 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 11:58:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id WAA01480; Sat, 28 Jun 1997 22:28:13 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <19970628222812.56081@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 22:28:12 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: ashworth@cs.montana.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nohup? References: <33B4556B.9A5C1535@spacehog.structured.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.75e In-Reply-To: <33B4556B.9A5C1535@spacehog.structured.net>; from Justin Ashworth on Sat, Jun 28, 1997 at 12:06:04AM +0000 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Jun 28, 1997 at 12:06:04AM +0000, Justin Ashworth wrote: > How can I telnet into a machine, start a process, and exit without > killing the process? I have tried nohup with the syntax "nohup prog_name > &", but when I tried to log out it told me that there were suspended > processes. What can I do? I'd bet you also have suspended jobs (^Z) besides the nohup'ed and backgrounded job. type 'jobs' > > Thanks... > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Justin Ashworth, Intern Structured Network Systems > justin@structured.net http://www.structured.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > I've got some powdered water, but I don't know what to add. > -- Stephen Wright -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de